As September gets under way, the fields and open country of southern Xinjiang, stretching from Turpan through Korla, Aksu and Kashi to Hotan, as well as the northern country areas from Manas and Shihu westwards across toBole (Bortala), are all abloom with silvery, snow-white blossoms.
"We are destined to become a very important region," said Hua Dingchuan, a trade official inBole, a city that 10 years ago had virtually no private cars, and now is as densely developed and busy as any American suburb.[…] Bole, a city in Xinjiang Province, is now densely developed and has the conveniences of modern Chinese life.
2014 July 3, Didi Tang, “China bans Ramadan fast in Muslim northwest”, inAP News[4], archived fromthe original on20 June 2022[5]:
In the city ofBole, retired teachers from the Wutubulage Middle School were called in to stand guard at mosques and prevent students from entering, according to a statement on the municipal party committee website. Also inBole, the Bozhou University of Radio and Television said on its website it held a meeting with working and retired minority teachers on the first day of the Ramadan to remind them of the fasting ban.
Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Polo”, inThe Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World[6], Morningside Heights, NY:Columbia University Press,→OCLC,page1493, column 3
From earlierBolle, ultimately from either the dative singularbolde or dative pluralboldum ofbold(“house”); the latter is perhaps suggested by its attestation in the Domesday Book asMedieval LatinBolun.
